Cassettes Quotes

• I have some vivid memories of walking around as a child with a cassette tape.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Children, Memories, Tape

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• Tonight, I feel like my whole body is made out of memories. I'm a mix-tape, a cassette that's been rewound so many times you can hear the fingerprints smudged on the tape.

  Rob Sheffield

  Memories, Tape, Tonight

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.12, Crown Archetype

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• I don't like the way recording to digital sounds.

  M. Ward

  Sound, Way, Digital

  Interview with Steven Hyden, music.avclub.com. May 10, 2007.

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• I grew up I guess you'd say in the cassette era.

  Beck

  Eras, Grew Up, Grew

  Interview with Tom Breihan, pitchfork.com. July 13, 2009.

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• I love the Digital Era! I grew up in a time that started from cassette tapes.

  Yukmouth

  Tape, Eras, Digital

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• The history of the music industry is inevitably also the story of the development of
  technology. From the player piano to the vinyl disc, from reel-to-reel tape to the cassette, from the CD to the digital download, these formats and devices changed not only the way music was consumed, but the very way artists created it.

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.

  Artist, Technology, Player

  "Steve Jobs In Memoriam: Remembrances and Tributes". www.billboard.com. October 05, 2011.

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• A great song is a great song, whether it's on vinyl or CD or cassette or reel to reel or mp3. Then again, that might be an overly optimistic view, but I do think that great music will transcend the medium in which it is delivered.

  Moby

  Song, Optimistic, Thinking

  "Is Moby's Music Still Good When Its Free?". "Day to Day" with Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. March 31, 2008.

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• I listen to tapes a lot. I have a car that only (has a cassette player). I like the nostalgic factor.

  Angel Olsen

  Player, Car, Tape

  "Angel Olsen is in complete control". Interview with Chrissie Dickinson, www.chicagotribune.com. September 21, 2016.

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• You can't even imagine how it felt to have a cassette that you could take with you with a microphone so you could put down an idea and not have to hum it a million times to remember what it was.

  Robert Plant

  Ideas, Remember, Imagine

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• The reason I make that distinction cassette before CD is you have to listen to it in the order in which I've curated it for you. You know, side A to side B is our act break.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Order, Cds, Sides

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I have a large number of cassettes, but I look at them mainly for reference purposes.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Numbers, Looks, Purpose

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was happy using cassettes when I was fifteen, but I'm sure they were sneered at in their day by audiophiles.

  Jonny Greenwood

  Fifteen

  "Dithering: Jonny Greenwood". Interview with Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. September 1, 2009.

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• With modern parts atop old ones, the brain is like an iPod built around an eight-track cassette player.

  Sharon Begley

  Player, Eight, Ipods

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• When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Years, Tape, Ugly

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• I remember Prince gave me a cassette of Purple Rain. It was like 20 minutes long and he asked me to write something on it. I tried for a month and then he came to L.A. I went to see him and said, "I can't do it. It's too perfect. It's like 'Stairway to Heaven.'" He said OK and then I go, "I can keep the cassette, right?" He said, "Of course and thank you for trying."

  Stevie Nicks

  Rain, Writing, Purple

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I remember the first time I received a cassette tape of a band called The Clash. I became an instant fan of the Clash and then bought their albums after that and went to their concerts and gave them my money... but I first got it for free.

  Michael Moore

  Firsts, Fans, Albums

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• I love the Beatles. I haven't named any kids after them but I still really love them. They were the first group that I was ever properly aware of. In my early teens I would sometimes stay in and listen to the radio all day in the hope that I would catch a song by them that I'd never heard before and be able to tape it on my radio-cassette player.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Kids, Player

  "The John Lennon Letters, edited by Hunter Davies - review" by Jarvis Cocker, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2012.

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• At home I don't really have any drum machines or anything like that, I just have a piano and a cassette machine, an old-fashioned one, an old relic which I've always used.

  Bryan Ferry

  Home, Piano, Machines

  "An Unsettling Creation: Bryan Ferry Interviewed By Taylor Parkes". Interview with Taylor Parkes, thequietus.com. November 13, 2014.

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• People have reacted to the length of "Aquarius" in very positive ways. For example, at the beginning, you have people in a car on the beach at night. One character says, "I'm going to play you this great track." She pushes in a cassette tape, and they listen to about 45 seconds of Queen's "Another One Bites the Dust." You can actually see the pleasure registering on their faces, but it takes time, and audiences have appreciated that.

  Sonia Braga

  Beach, Queens, Character

  Source: www.rogerebert.com

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• There is a British pop group called God. At a recent book signing the lead singer introduced himself and gave me a cassette. I have heard the voice of God.

  J. G. Ballard

  Book, Voice, Groups

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• I was going to tape some records onto a cassette, but I got the wires backwards. I erased the all of the records. When I returned them to my friend, he said, "Hey, these records are all blank."

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Wire

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• I grew up in the time just when cassettes were waning and CDs were growing. And so mix tapes - and not mix CDs - mix tapes were an important part of the friendship and mating rituals of New York adolescents. If you were a girl and I wanted you - to show you I like you, I would make you a 90-minute cassette wherein I would show off my tastes. I would play you a musical theater song next to a hip-hop song next to an oldie next to some pop song you maybe never heard, also subliminally telling you how much I like you with all these songs.

  Lin-Manuel Miranda

  Girl, Song, I Like You

  Source: www.npr.org

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• When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.

  Dave Grohl

  Song, Morning, Teenager

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• One of the first cassette tapes I ever purchased was the Rambo III score. I was not allowed to see Rambo, but my mom would allow me to buy the music, so I would listen to that score over and over and imagine the movie. But those limitations and not being able to access those things made me so much more excited about them.

  Dan Trachtenberg

  Mom, Rambo, Able

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.

  Waylon Jennings

  Brother, Musical, Tanks

  Song: Armed And Dangerous, Album: Too Dumb for New York City, Too Ugly for L.A.

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